Sentence examples for a huge options from inspiring English sources
A particularly important change will make it more likely for shareholders to learn when one executive is given a huge options award.
That meant that an executive could be given a huge options grant, perhaps on hiring, without the company having to disclose it, even if that was the largest pay package the company gave out that year.
The run-up in gold represents "a huge option on an opinion, and in the last few years the opinion has been that the world is going to blow up," he said.
Because Beijing is well inland from China's coast, ocean liner cruising isn't a huge option (although a new terminal is expected to be completed in Shanghai sometime next year, while other cruising ports-of-call like Tianjin provide similar gateways to the interior).
"There's not a lot of places to shop, so if I needed to run out and get a tie or buy a gift for a friend or my wife, there's not a huge choice of options," said Josh Glick, a vice president of Equity Office Properties, a subsidiary of Blackstone.
"You don't get to a billion dollars unless you have huge options gains," said Graef Crystal, a former consultant on executive pay who now analyzes it for Bloomberg News.
Another factor that could keep the partners' stake from slipping below 10 percent in the immediate future is a huge 2008 options grant, which is steadily giving the partners the opportunity to acquire more shares.
Just about every analysis of the emergence of widespread accounting fraud stresses the distorting role of huge options grants to top executives, which gave insiders a strong incentive to do whatever it took to push up stock prices.
O.K., not exactly nothing: some of the huge options grants at the top went away, reducing the average among the top 100.
For overall pay to drop, however, the pattern of 2000 -- when executives used the downturn as leverage to get cash payments and huge options grants -- would have to reverse, pay experts said.
That gives you huge options and opportunities.
